The Projects

AA2GM

African Arts during World War II: Looting, Destructions, Displacements

PRESAT

Project on the return Schomburg’s visual archives (films) on the German colony of Togo (1884–1918)

AFRITEX

Heritage in Filigree: Stories of Fabrics and Memories of Africa

ODAYO : Color Heritage Provenance

RESOTISSUS

Réappropriation, circulation et documentation des savoir-faire textiles africains

REPATGUI

Réseau Patrimoine de Guinée

FangBeti

Pangwe-Pahouin-Fang-Bulu-Beti... objects to be identified and located (FangBeti)

ProHumStra

Re-connecting human remains an cultural objects : Provenance research and re-humanization of ancestral remains from former German colonies in Africa at the University of Strasbourg

PROBAMA

Provenances d'Objets BAmana du Soudan Français (Mali) between 1880 and 1914 : Colonial acquisitions, appropriations and competition in the collections of the Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.

Matrimoines / ReMatriation

Collaboration with communities and diasporas to research and revive the history, origins, and narratives of African objects held in France and Germany.
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About the Fond

Museums, cultural, scientific and academic institutions in both Germany and France hold substantial collections of cultural objects with great symbolic, artistic, historic or societal significance for the countries and societies of origin. Over the last few years, strengthening provenance research has been a major objective for Germany and France, as well as for many other European countries. France and Germany have sought to support making sub-Saharan cultural heritage more accessible again to the Sub-Saharan public.

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